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Trump’s impeachment barricade crumbles
Key witnesses are ignoring Trump and delivering bombshell testimony in Democrats’ Ukraine investigation.
The president's former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill — the first White House official to cooperate in Democrats' investigation of the Ukraine scandal — has detailed for lawmakers a trail of alleged corruption that extends from Kyiv to the West Wing. In dramatic testimony on Monday, she roped in some of Trump's top advisers as witnesses to the unfolding controversy.
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And on Tuesday, a senior State Department official, George Kent, testified for nearly 10 hours about his knowledge of the episode despite an attempt by Trump administration lawyers to block him, according to a source working on the impeachment inquiry. The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for his testimony Tuesday morning, and Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, complied.
According to people familiar with his testimony, Kent told House impeachment investigators that he was alarmed at the role Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, was playing in Ukraine. In particular, one lawmaker in the room said Kent was concerned because the president was apparently listening to Giuliani, who had mounted a months-long campaign to discredit Joe Biden on unfounded charges.
“He was concerned at the undue influence a private attorney — not an official with the United States government and not someone charged with the responsibility of U.S. relations with Ukraine — was exerting, and that Giuliani was listening to discredited sources and had ties to some questionable characters in Ukraine, and nonetheless had the ear of the president,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said in a brief interview as he emerged from Kent’s deposition.
Kent’s appearance on Tuesday was just the latest evidence that the White House’s stonewalling against congressional requests for documents and testimony is crumbling — and Democrats now have a new sense of momentum.
More: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/donald-trump-impeachment-ukraine-investigation-046915
His support is still immoveable.

There seems to be around 120 million incredibly stupid people lurching around the USA.

Zombies!

They're real!
 

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this news is about 12 plus hrs old but here it is:


Trump says Islamic State leader Baghdadi blew himself up as U.S. troops closed in



Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in Syria, a breakthrough more than five years after he launched the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate.

source: WAPO


.........and Trump did a very graphic , unseemly description of the event......... It seems that getting him alive was not even considered.
 

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this news is about 12 plus hrs old but here it is:

Trump says Islamic State leader Baghdadi blew himself up as U.S. troops closed in

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in Syria, a breakthrough more than five years after he launched the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate.
source: WAPO
.........and Trump did a very graphic , unseemly description of the event......... It seems that getting him alive was not even considered.
Nothing unseemly about killing a psychopath. Good on the special forces.
 

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Twitter will ban political advertising beginning in November, in contrast to Facebook's controversial policies


The decision, announced by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, stands in contrast to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's defense of Facebook's political advertising policies, including allowing politicians to lie in ads they place themselves.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...conomy--alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
 

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Washington Nationals win first World Series title in franchise history, defeating Houston Astros in seven games


After losing all three games in Washington over the weekend, the underdog Nationals became the first team in major league history to win the World Series by claiming four games on the road, culminating in Wednesday��s Game 7.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1


Fantastic !!!
 

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Washington Nationals win first World Series title in franchise history, defeating Houston Astros in seven games

After losing all three games in Washington over the weekend, the underdog Nationals became the first team in major league history to win the World Series by claiming four games on the road, culminating in Wednesday��s Game 7.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
Fantastic !!!
Turns out booing Donny Dodger is good juju.
 

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Democrats projected to flip Virginia Senate and House, taking control of state government for the first time in a generation


All 140 seats in the state Senate and House of Delegates were on the ballot as Republicans tried to protect thin majorities in each chamber. Of the four states holding legislative contests this year, Virginia is the only one where control was up for grabs.

source: WAPO
 

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Democrat Andy Beshear claims victory over incumbent Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Trump ally, but Bevin has not conceded


Beshear, Kentucky��s attorney general, was narrowly leading Bevin, a blunt businessman and close ally of President Trump who has been ranked as one of the country��s least popular governors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1


The Dems did well today..
 

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A Woman Who Was Fired For Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Won An Election In Virginia

Juli Briskman, a Democrat, beat the Republican incumbent for a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.


A Virginia woman who was fired after flipping off President Trump's motorcade in 2017 turned her political frustrations into action, winning a local election on Tuesday.
Juli Briskman won a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, beating the incumbent Republican in her district. With 99% of precincts reporting results, she captured 52.4% of the vote.
Briskman is a longtime resident of the county, which borders Washington, DC, and in October 2017, was cycling past the president's motorcade as it was departing the Trump National Golf Course. A news photographer caught her flipping off the line of SUVs escorting Trump, and the photo went viral.




At the time, she was upset by Trump's plan to end the immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as well as his response to the disaster in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
"I don't employ that gesture very often but I wanted to express my opinion, and I was faced with tinted, bullet-proof glass, and I was assuming the person in the car was who I thought it was," Briskman told BuzzFeed News in 2018.

After Briskman was identified as the cyclist, her bosses at federal contractor Akima told her she had to resign from her position as a marketing analyst. A lawsuit filed by Briskman against the company in 2018 alleged the company was afraid the Trump administration would retaliate against the company and end its contracts because of the photo.
She argued the firing violated her freedom of speech, and ultimately, she won severance from her former employer, the Washington Post reported.


More: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...man-democrat-virginia-election-flip-off-trump